Tea and coffee strainer.



A. L. CARLSON.

TEA AND COFFEE STRAINBR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 12, 1910.

1,015,293, Patented Jan. 23, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AXEL L. CARLSON, 0F CENTER CITY, MINNESQTA.

TEA AND COFFEE STRAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23,1912.

Application filed September 12, 1910. Serial No. 581,483.

being to provide a cheap, simple and very serviceable device of this kind which may be readily placed in the spout of a colfee or tea pot and is provided with a clamping jaw to engage the outer side of the coffee or tea pot spout and secure the strainer therein and yet so that the strainer may be readily detached from the spout when desired.

My invention consists in the construction and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 is a perspective view of a coffee and tea strainer constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same, showing the strainer within the spout of a coffee pot, said spout of the coffee pot being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the same on the plane indicated by the line AA of Fig. 2. Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view on the plane indicated by the line bb of Fig. 2.

In accordance with my invention, I provide a substantially trough shaped body 1, of such size and shape as to adapt the same to be fitted in the lower side of thespout b of a coffee or tea pot 0. The said body is made of springy sheet metal so that the sides of the body spring outwardly in opposite directions. The said body extends a suitable distance in the spout, and as above indicated bears against the bottom thereof,

on its inner side. The side walls 1 of the body converge downwardly and are outturned as at 1 at their inner edges, so as to provide outwardly inclined side flanges on thesaid walls, which bear by reason of v the elasticity of the body against the sides of the spout and effect a substantially water' tight connection between the sidewalls of the body and the sides of the spout. The troughshaped body is adapted to be readily. fitted in and removed from the spout of the pot, as will be understood.

At the outer end of the trough shaped body, is a foraminous pouring lip 23, which extends from side to side of the body and projects beyond the outer end of the spout.

This pouring lip may be either integral with the trough shaped body of the strainer as here shown, or may, if preferred, be composed of wire fabric of suitable size" and mesh. I donot desire to limit myself in thisparticular. The outer end of the pouring lip is inclined and converges downwardlyfto. the outer end of the bottom of the trough shaped body. The latter is pro vided with a clamping spring 4 which is here shown as comprising a substantially U-shapedsp'ring wire of suitable gage, the bight'portion of which is adapted to'bear against the outer side of the spout, on. the

lowerside thereof, the ends of the clamping spring being upturned, bearing against 0pposite sides of the body of the strainer as at 5, and being here shown as secured thereto by means of suitable rivets 6. The

clamping spring may, within the scope of my invention, be of any suitable construction, and it may be secured to the body of the strainer by any suitable means. I do not desire to limit myself in these particulars.

While I have herein shown and described a preferred embodiment of my invention, I would have it understood that modifications may be made within the scope of the appended claim.

I claim The herein described strainer comprising a substantially trough shaped body having downwardly converging side walls to fit in the lower side of the spout of a coffee or tea pot, the said body being open at its inner endandprovided at its outer end with a foraminous pouring lip extending from and connecting the bottom and the side the outer side of the spout and secure the Walls thereof and adapted to project bestrainer detachably in place therein. 10 yond the outer end of the spout to which the In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my strainer is applied, the strainer being signature in the presence of two Witnesses. further provided With a U-shaped clalnp- AXEL L. CARLSON.

ing spring, the ends of Which are secured Witnesses:

to the sides of the strainer, the bight por- ALFRED P. STOLBERG,

t-ion of said spring being adapted to engage ROZETTA V. JOHNSON.

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